TYPES AND PROCESSES OF DERIVATIONAL AFFIXES IN VIDEO “A GUIDE TO SELF-LOVE FOR SKEPTICS” ON THE TED TALKS WEBSITE

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Morphology is the study of word formation, including how new words are created in a language and how these word forms change based on their application in sentences. This study aims to help further understanding of language studies, specifically derivational morphology. This study analyzes the types and processes of derivational affixes using Fromkin, Rodman, & Hyams' (2014) theory in Dan Harris and Whitney Pennington Rodgers' live video conversation, A Guide to Self-Love for Skeptics. This study conveys the theory's application beyond written language and explains how morphological derivation processes operate in real-time communication. This study uses a descriptive qualitative research methodology to examine the words spoken by Dan Harris and Whitney to explore the types of derivational affixes found in the live video conversation and their derivational processes. This analysis found forty-nine data points, revealing the presence of two types of derivational affixes and the absence of two other types of derivational affixes in the data: prefixes with nine data points, suffixes with forty data points, circumfixes with zero data points, and infixes with zero data points. These findings indicate that Dan Harris and Whitney's live conversation contributes to the study of morphology in linguistics, particularly in the analysis of derivational affixes based on the theory of Fromkin, Rodman, and Hyams (2014). The absence of circumfixes in the data also supports existing morphological derivation findings that this process is unproductive in English, while the absence of infixation in the video supports existing morphological derivation findings that this process usually occurs in very informal or expressive contexts.